diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 7ee3c97..f4677f4 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -15,14 +15,13 @@
 #     Run on demand via `make bench-qa-{quick,smoke}` (10s / 30s) or
 #     full `make bench-qa` (full sweep).
 
-# Pipeline DISABLED 2026-05-02. CI runners overlap with the bench
-# infrastructure fox is using for QA-quality measurements; auto-
-# triggered pipelines on every push contend for the same runner pool
-# & risk skewing bench latencies. Re-enable by deleting this
-# workflow.rules block (everything below stays valid).
-workflow:
-  rules:
-    - when: never
+# Pipeline RE-ENABLED 2026-05-09 with `test-ci` (skips wikipedia
+# ingest tests; full suite still available locally via `make test`).
+# Originally disabled 2026-05-02 because bench infrastructure
+# overlapped with the runner pool; mitigation today is the
+# `test-ci` scope cap + per-job parallelism cap
+# (PYTEST_XDIST_AUTO_NUM_WORKERS=4) so CI doesn't crowd live bench
+# work.
 
 stages:
   - test
@@ -37,10 +36,15 @@ variables:
   PYTEST_XDIST_AUTO_NUM_WORKERS: "4"
 
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Default test job — runs the full unit suite via `make test`, which
-# already passes `-n auto` to pytest-xdist for parallelism. On the
-# in-house runner this finishes in ~11s wall-clock (3.4× the serial
-# cost) for the 641-test suite.
+# Default test job — runs the CI-scoped suite via `make test-ci`,
+# which is `make test` minus tests/crawler (network) and the
+# wikipedia ingest tests (`test_wikipedia_old.py`,
+# `test_wikipedia_xml.py`; their runtime path is exercised end-to-end
+# by real ingest under `make ingest-*` so the synthetic fixtures
+# duplicate coverage). pytest-xdist `-n auto` parallelism is capped
+# by PYTEST_XDIST_AUTO_NUM_WORKERS so cgroup-limited containers
+# don't oversubscribe the host. Local `make test` stays
+# comprehensive for the dev loop.
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 test:
   stage: test
@@ -62,10 +66,11 @@ test:
     - .venv/bin/pip install --upgrade pip wheel
     - .venv/bin/pip install -e '.[dev]'
   script:
-    # `make test` invokes `pytest -q --ignore=tests/crawler -n auto`.
+    # `make test-ci` invokes pytest with --ignore=tests/crawler
+    # plus --ignore on the two wikipedia ingest test files.
     # PYTEST_XDIST_AUTO_NUM_WORKERS env var caps the worker count on
     # the runner; locally `-n auto` uses the full machine.
-    - make test
+    - make test-ci
   artifacts:
     when: on_failure
     paths:
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 98185c1..24dc43a 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ SEARCH_Q     ?= computer
         ingest ingest-cur ingest-old ingest-xml ingest-xml-history \
         ingest-xml-attached ingest-abstract \
         ingest-self ingest-self-providence ingest-git ingest-hg \
-        verify search stats test test-live docs docs-api docs-api-clean \
+        verify search stats test test-ci test-live docs docs-api docs-api-clean \
         chain-check chain-check-shards \
         falsify burn burn-kindergarten inspect bootstrap-crawler test-crawler crawl-ingest \
         recrawl-check bench-qa bootstrap-math clean clean-db clean-data help \
@@ -613,6 +613,20 @@ stats: bootstrap ## counts: documents, chunks, edges, audit chain
 test: bootstrap ## run pytest suite (excludes opt-in crawler tests)
 	$(VENV)/bin/pytest -q --ignore=tests/crawler -n auto
 
+# CI-scoped suite: same as `make test` but also drops the wikipedia
+# ingest tests (`test_wikipedia_old.py`, `test_wikipedia_xml.py`).
+# Wikipedia ingest is exercised end-to-end on real shards via
+# `make ingest-cur` / `make ingest-xml`; running synthetic-fixture
+# coverage on every CI push duplicates that surface for no signal
+# the runtime path doesn't already provide. Local `make test` stays
+# comprehensive — this target is for the gate, not the dev loop.
+test-ci: bootstrap ## CI gate: full suite minus crawler + wikipedia ingest
+	$(VENV)/bin/pytest -q \
+	    --ignore=tests/crawler \
+	    --ignore=tests/test_wikipedia_old.py \
+	    --ignore=tests/test_wikipedia_xml.py \
+	    -n auto
+
 # Crawler tests are off-by-default — they hit the network in many cases
 # and require the heavy [crawler] extras (aiohttp, bs4, lxml, etc.).
 # Bootstrap installs the extras into the existing venv idempotently.